Add a new share option to add to an existing note.
Usage scenario:
I cut a snippet of text eg something about Barcelona, to share ie. Add, to an existing note eg. "Spain Travels".
Hi,
Can you elaborate further? It's not clear what help you are in need of.
This request is for the android mobile version, which has a ‘share’ option for many apps.
I'm basically asking for a way to append a webpage link or a text snippet to an existing note. Currently, the workaround is to:
- In a Android browser page, mark and copy the link or text snippet.
- Open up Joplin
- Open the existing note that needs to be appended
- Manually paste it to the opened note
With the requested function:
- On Android, click ‘share’ from the browser page if it's to share the page link. Mark the text if that's what needed to be shared (and click ‘share’)
- Pick ‘joplin’ from the ‘share’ targets
- Pick the existing note to be appended OR edit new note (ie. as in the current Joplin implementation).
I often import information from Google News into Joplin but unfortunately the way I do it is the way you suggest to Quick Share and then I select Joplin and what it does is Add a new note with the URL to the news article. It's efficient and simple but doesn't cover all of your bases.
On Android I found another workaround that is an extra step but it gets the job done for me and that is to share my news article to the Firefox web browser or just already be in the Firefox web browser for Android and in there I have installed the obsidian Web Clipper extension for Firefox and you can configure it to either paste the captured text and web page directly into obsidian which is what we don't want or in Firefox the obsidian Web Clipper can be configured to Simply copy everything to the clipboard and then you can go into Joplin and paste it wherever you want.
I'm interested in seeing into the development of a Joplin Web Clipper for Firefox that runs on Android. That's a missing component right now.
If Firefox on android had a Joplin Web Clipper both of our needs would be met. I think.
Thanks, you understood my needs. So, ironically, the best workaround for me is to either remain using the clipto app standalone or to use the clipto app to retain a buffer of web clips to merge and then paste on to Joplin.
Yup,
Until a developer magically appears and creates the extension Web Clipper for the Android Firefox browser and also perhaps needs to modify the Android client as well so it's not a simple fix unfortunately.
For now, I am capturing web page content using the obsidian Web Clipper and then pasting the results into Joplin.
I also have another app called markdownr for Android and you paste the URL of the web page that you want to clip contents of into it and then it converts the HTML code into markdown and gives you the option to copy and paste it into Joplin.
Let me know if you want to try that out and I'll post the place I got it from it was either GitHub or f-droid.
I don’t know what clipto is but for now I'm using the Firefox browser and the obsidian Web Clipper plugin and that lets you copy the web page to the clipboard and paste it into Joplin.
If you browse the internet with Firefox on android when you are interested in grabbing a web clip all you need to do is click on the three dots in the lower corner of the browser select extensions and then obsidian Web Clipper and if you go into settings when you first install it you can have the default be changed from import into obsidian to just copy to clipboard. And you pasted it into Joplin wherever you want and it will have been converted into markdown format and it will retain all of the images and links that were in the web page plus it creates a very nice summary including a link to the original article and when it was published.
If I'm using an app or browser other than Firefox I paste the web page into an app called markdownr. It converts the web page into markdown so you can paste it neatly into Joplin.
Thanks, my clipto app suffices for now as a workaround.